kist

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of kiss
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet:

     To me my Julia lately sent
     A Bracelet richly Redolent
     The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
     That did perfume the Pomander.

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”).

kist (plural kists)

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17:

     the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]

2. (Scotland) A coffin.
3. (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”)
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

• kist o' whistles

Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”).

kist (plural kists)

1. (British India) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

• kistbandi

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “kist”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 486.

• kits, skit, tisk

• IPA^(key): /kɪst/

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• Hyphenation: kist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

From Middle Dutch kiste, from Old Dutch *kista, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.

kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)

1. a box, chest

   Synonym: koffer

2. a coffin

   Synonyms: doodskist, lijkkist

3. (aviation, informal) an aeroplane
4. (informal) a boot or large shoe, especially an army boot

• kisten (verb)

- chest types

• Afrikaans: kis
• Berbice Creole Dutch: kesi
• Negerhollands: kist
• → Munsee: kusht
• → Sranan Tongo: kisi
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kisi
  • → Saramaccan: kési

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kist

1. inflection of kisten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• stik

kist

1. A Alternative form of cheste (“chest”).

Borrowed from Russian кисть (kistʹ).

• IPA^(key): /kîst/

kȉst m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ст)

1. A brush.

Borrowed from French kyste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcist/
• Hyphenation: kist

kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)

1. (medicine) A cyst.

Inflection
Nominative	kist
Definite accusative	kisti
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kist	kistler
Definite accusative	kisti	kistleri
Dative	kiste	kistlere
Locative	kistte	kistlerde
Ablative	kistten	kistlerden
Genitive	kistin	kistlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular kistim kistlerim 2nd singular kistin kistlerin 3rd singular kisti kistleri 1st plural kistimiz kistlerimiz 2nd plural kistiniz kistleriniz 3rd plural kistleri kistleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular kistimi kistlerimi 2nd singular kistini kistlerini 3rd singular kistini kistlerini 1st plural kistimizi kistlerimizi 2nd plural kistinizi kistlerinizi 3rd plural kistlerini kistlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular kistime kistlerime 2nd singular kistine kistlerine 3rd singular kistine kistlerine 1st plural kistimize kistlerimize 2nd plural kistinize kistlerinize 3rd plural kistlerine kistlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular kistimde kistlerimde 2nd singular kistinde kistlerinde 3rd singular kistinde kistlerinde 1st plural kistimizde kistlerimizde 2nd plural kistinizde kistlerinizde 3rd plural kistlerinde kistlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular kistimden kistlerimden 2nd singular kistinden kistlerinden 3rd singular kistinden kistlerinden 1st plural kistimizden kistlerimizden 2nd plural kistinizden kistlerinizden 3rd plural kistlerinden kistlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular kistimin kistlerimin 2nd singular kistinin kistlerinin 3rd singular kistinin kistlerinin 1st plural kistimizin kistlerimizin 2nd plural kistinizin kistlerinizin 3rd plural kistlerinin kistlerinin
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular kistim kistlerim 2nd singular kistsin kistlersin 3rd singular kist kisttir kistler kistlerdir 1st plural kistiz kistleriz 2nd plural kistsiniz kistlersiniz 3rd plural kistler kistlerdir